Sociological explanations for the income inequality gap
-->Failure to claim benefits: Stigma, Lack of awareness of entitlement to benefits
-->Job insecurity: Outsourcing, Competition, University retention rates, Brexit
-->Decline in Trade Unions: Late 1970s: 13million + members, 2010+: 6.5milliop
-->Growth in Lone parent families, Increase in one-parent households, Also seeing an increase in two-earner, cohabiting households
-->Globalisation: Technology, The ability to connect worldwide